WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Cory Booker issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) filed an amicus brief to the U.S Supreme Court in Monsanto Company v. John L. Durnell to ensure that pesticide manufacturers can be held accountable by the people harmed by their products, including those exposed through the application of Roundup and its active ingredient, glyphosate.
By filing an amicus brief, Senator Booker is standing with thousands of Americans who developed cancer after using glyphosate-based herbicides and who deserve a meaningful opportunity to seek justice. John Durnell, a longtime Roundup user who later developed non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, is one of many plaintiffs alleging that Monsanto failed to warn consumer...